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"HOLD THAT. LINE" . . HAY 2WUNE 3
POWERLINE PROTEST NEWSLETTER***PRESS RELEASE
TRIAL
The first powerline related felony got underway May 21, Judge John Lind-
strom presiding. Veteran protesters, will remember his honor the judge. He's
a guy appointed by ex-politician Wendy Anderson and back in those days Lind-
strom did what he could to keep his boss and benefactor from powerline embar-
assment. In those days, many things wore done to keep the powerline protest
an aimless and stiffled cry in the dark. Most of those things were done in the
name of THE LAW., and many times THE LAW was our honorable friend judge Lind-
strom. It is so nice to sit once again at the feet of His Honorable and listen
to his inaudible muttering v/hile gazing in awe at the top of the Head ho has
buried in his desk. These nasty habits of His Honorable would come to mind
less readily if it could reasonably be thought that such forgetfulness would
be beneficial to the defense. But instead of falling into such niave and wishful thinking, let us at least be strong enough to look at a few facts.
Look on page 1A of the Nov. 25» 1976 Pope County Tribune, for example.
There we find a headline, "District Judge Tells Sheriff 'Clear Line For Power
Surveyors"', The article describes the order given to Sheriff Emmons by "Judge
Lindstrom and lists 6 specific duties which the sheriff must perform to insure
unmolested surveying. It also says what to do with anyone Who gets In the way,
The article says, "Emmons said that he was told verbally by Judge Lindstrom
that, 'if it takes 100 extra people to execute this order, then hire 100 poopl
Ira recognized the foolishness of such an order (mainly that it would break
the county) and tried to find another Way. Apparently Ira is still trying.
On the other hand, while all that ruckus in the fields was getting started, there was a whole series of civil cases which powerline protesters brought
to court in an effort to got a bit of justice. Eventually all these cases were
consolidated and brought before a special .3 judge panel. One of the judges on
that panel was a guy named Stabler, and Stabler was also responsible for the
court order the troopers enjoyed reading in the winter of '70. At first Stah-
lor was scheduled to be the judge in this case, but he was removed by motion
of the defendant. Then wo got Lindstrom. Lindstrom was also on that 3 judge
panel, and the judges, as wo shall see, behaved more like 3 blind mice than
anything related to justice. For starters, the LAW says that UPA/CPA needed a
Certificate of Need before they could apply for a Construction Permit and begi
construction. In fact, construction had begun before the Construction Permit
was issued, and it was sometime later before a rubber stamp version of a Certificate of Need came along. The LAW was being broken, and Mr. Lindstrom coiilc?
find nothing v/rong. Lindstrom ruled it was ok if State Agencies destroyed trar
scripts of some testimony at public hearings, and it was perfectly acceptable
to Mr. Lindstrom if Environmental Impact Statements did not meet the required
standards and wore not available when the LA!/ required them. In short, we all
know how the LAW was violated time and time again by the utilities and state
agencies in this powerline business. This judge of ours knew about every one
of those violations too, and In his wisdom he saw fit to issue whatever court
orders and decrees necessary to make sure that the LAW, people, human and civ:,
rights, and common sense and decency did not get in the way of the powerline*
Anyway, now that we understand our fair and impartial history lesson, lei
us look at the fair and unbiased court proceedings of the past 2 weeks. 12
jurors and 2 alternates were chosen by May 29, with such memorable questions
by the prosecutor as, "Have you ever been involved in any vandalism along the
powerline"? But here in Pope County, where civilization is running amok, the
Prosecutor Fabel was able to use 2 of his 3 preemtory strikes on alternates.
That's mostly cause Lindstrom did ouch a good job of removing potential prosecutor strikes for cause. They started taking - evidence on the 29th, but most
of the action has been going on in the back room where they try to figure out
what to do next. The Fabolod Prosecutor is not pleased because the only thing
ho can prove is that something hapx'oned a year ago last March. Exactly what

"HOLD THAT. LINE" . . HAY 2WUNE 3
POWERLINE PROTEST NEWSLETTER***PRESS RELEASE
TRIAL
The first powerline related felony got underway May 21, Judge John Lind-
strom presiding. Veteran protesters, will remember his honor the judge. He's
a guy appointed by ex-politician Wendy Anderson and back in those days Lind-
strom did what he could to keep his boss and benefactor from powerline embar-
assment. In those days, many things wore done to keep the powerline protest
an aimless and stiffled cry in the dark. Most of those things were done in the
name of THE LAW., and many times THE LAW was our honorable friend judge Lind-
strom. It is so nice to sit once again at the feet of His Honorable and listen
to his inaudible muttering v/hile gazing in awe at the top of the Head ho has
buried in his desk. These nasty habits of His Honorable would come to mind
less readily if it could reasonably be thought that such forgetfulness would
be beneficial to the defense. But instead of falling into such niave and wishful thinking, let us at least be strong enough to look at a few facts.
Look on page 1A of the Nov. 25» 1976 Pope County Tribune, for example.
There we find a headline, "District Judge Tells Sheriff 'Clear Line For Power
Surveyors"', The article describes the order given to Sheriff Emmons by "Judge
Lindstrom and lists 6 specific duties which the sheriff must perform to insure
unmolested surveying. It also says what to do with anyone Who gets In the way,
The article says, "Emmons said that he was told verbally by Judge Lindstrom
that, 'if it takes 100 extra people to execute this order, then hire 100 poopl
Ira recognized the foolishness of such an order (mainly that it would break
the county) and tried to find another Way. Apparently Ira is still trying.
On the other hand, while all that ruckus in the fields was getting started, there was a whole series of civil cases which powerline protesters brought
to court in an effort to got a bit of justice. Eventually all these cases were
consolidated and brought before a special .3 judge panel. One of the judges on
that panel was a guy named Stabler, and Stabler was also responsible for the
court order the troopers enjoyed reading in the winter of '70. At first Stah-
lor was scheduled to be the judge in this case, but he was removed by motion
of the defendant. Then wo got Lindstrom. Lindstrom was also on that 3 judge
panel, and the judges, as wo shall see, behaved more like 3 blind mice than
anything related to justice. For starters, the LAW says that UPA/CPA needed a
Certificate of Need before they could apply for a Construction Permit and begi
construction. In fact, construction had begun before the Construction Permit
was issued, and it was sometime later before a rubber stamp version of a Certificate of Need came along. The LAW was being broken, and Mr. Lindstrom coiilc?
find nothing v/rong. Lindstrom ruled it was ok if State Agencies destroyed trar
scripts of some testimony at public hearings, and it was perfectly acceptable
to Mr. Lindstrom if Environmental Impact Statements did not meet the required
standards and wore not available when the LA!/ required them. In short, we all
know how the LAW was violated time and time again by the utilities and state
agencies in this powerline business. This judge of ours knew about every one
of those violations too, and In his wisdom he saw fit to issue whatever court
orders and decrees necessary to make sure that the LAW, people, human and civ:,
rights, and common sense and decency did not get in the way of the powerline*
Anyway, now that we understand our fair and impartial history lesson, lei
us look at the fair and unbiased court proceedings of the past 2 weeks. 12
jurors and 2 alternates were chosen by May 29, with such memorable questions
by the prosecutor as, "Have you ever been involved in any vandalism along the
powerline"? But here in Pope County, where civilization is running amok, the
Prosecutor Fabel was able to use 2 of his 3 preemtory strikes on alternates.
That's mostly cause Lindstrom did ouch a good job of removing potential prosecutor strikes for cause. They started taking - evidence on the 29th, but most
of the action has been going on in the back room where they try to figure out
what to do next. The Fabolod Prosecutor is not pleased because the only thing
ho can prove is that something hapx'oned a year ago last March. Exactly what